For many years, broadcast viewer erosion due to cable grabbed big headlines. Now we lump all TV viewing together in one brew. That's because there's a new alternative in the land - those crazy digital video platforms looking to make hay. At first, we assumed digital video would foster continued viewer erosion for the old TV media. But those rumors were quickly quashed. TV executives said the reverse was true -- the Internet was helping viewership grow by functioning as a marketing tool, most recently through social media. Now we might be focusing on erosion again for one particular demographic: ...

Relax and recline; what we really need is for a TV company to go into the couch business. I'm thinking Kabletown has it right -- you know, the fictional cable company that owns NBCUniversal on "30 Rock."

TV station execs continue to be angry that content and viewers are moving offline to digital sites. The CW, for example, now gets 25% of its viewers via cwtv.com -- and, in the future, should get more viewers from such sites as Netflix.

One of DirecTV's most profitable program packages -- its nearly decade-old "NFL Sunday Ticket" -- is getting a big price reduction. The NFL said it decided to "dramatically lower the price" by some 40% to $199.95, in order to give more fans access to all its games. At a time when prices for most program packages seem to be climbing, this sounds like good news.

While watching live TV, I use the mute button a good percentage of the time when commercials come on. (Sorry, marketers. You still don't know what makes me click.) But here's the silver lining: Your commercial runs until "completion" and sometimes I even see most of it. Hulu says it will now only charge advertisers for commercials -- around 96% of them -- that users run until "completion."

Comcast levies "data use" caps for some apps, but not for its Xfinity Xbox app. Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix, says this means Comcast "no longer [is] following net neutrality principles." Forget for a moment what Hastings sees as a big inequity: Comcast's imposition of a "data usage" cap on Netflix's app.Imagine if some of this thinking applied to the bigger traditional TV platform. What if you watched 15 shows a week, but your neighbor - who has a lot of time on his hands - logs in 40 shows?